For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation,… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
